--- title: "A good day to bury bad news" means a day when some bigger story wil… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "A good day to bury bad news" means a day when some bigger story will stop people noticing your bad news. Who acts: good day, bigger story, people. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/) / 16 # Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 16 "A good day to bury bad news" means a day when some bigger story will stop people noticing your bad news. **Who acts:** good day, bigger story, people · **What happens:** bury, mean, stop, notice · **To what, where:** bad news, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good day, bigger story, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:16 # text = "A good day to bury bad news" means a day when some bigger story will stop people noticing your bad news. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 15 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 noticing notice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a good day *not said here* | bad news | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | a good day | | | | day | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | future | some bigger story | people | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality | | 4 | **notice** | gerund | people *not said here* | your bad news | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:16`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/15/) - next →: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/)